History Expeditions & Discoveries
Polar Region Explorers 2-Book Bundle
River Rough, River Smooth / Arctic Naturalist
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2016
- Category
- Expeditions & Discoveries, General, Adventurers & Explorers
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459736566
- Publish Date
- Feb 2016
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Anthony Dalton’s outstanding writing on Canada's polar regions, their history, and their greatest explorers.
“Dalton does an excellent job … a very enjoyable read.”— Bios Newsletter
Includes:
River Rough, River Smooth
Manitoba’s Hayes River runs over 600 km, from Norway House to Hudson Bay. Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, it became a major fur trade route from the 17th to 19th centuries. This is the account of the author’s journey on the Hayes in the company of modern-day voyageurs reliving the past.
Arctic Naturalist
J. Dewey Soper was the last of the great pioneer naturalists in Canada, and spent many years in the Arctic, where he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose and charted the final unknown region of Baffin Islands coastline.
About the author
Anthony Dalton is an adventurer, author and public speaker. Between 1970 and 1980 he led regular expeditions across the Sahara, through the deserts of the Middle East and into the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan. In 1984 he travelled hundreds of nautical miles along the Arctic coast of north-western Alaska alone in an inflatable speedboat. In 1994 he joined twelve members of the Cree First Nation on a traditional York boat voyage on the Hayes River between Norway House and Oxford House. While canoeing the second half of the Hayes River from Oxford House to York Factory in 2000 he participated in a television documentary on great Canadian rivers for the Discovery Channel.
Dalton has written five non-fiction books and collaborated on two others. His illustrated non-fiction articles have been published in magazines and newspapers in twenty countries and nine languages. He is currently working on two television documentaries based on his books.
Anthony Dalton is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Explorers Club, a Member of the Welsh Academy and National President of the Canadian Authors Association.
Other titles by
Henry Hudson
Doomed Navigator and Explorer
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Relentless Pursuit
The Discovery of a Northwest Passage
The Discovery of a Northwest Passage
Sir John Franklin
Expeditions to Destiny
Fire Canoes
Steamboats on Great Canadian Rivers
The Fur-Trade Fleet
Shipwrecks of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Polar Bears
The Arctic’s Fearless Great Wanderers
Arctic Naturalist
The Life of J. Dewey Soper